April 20, 2005, Wednesday

Robert Brustein is retiring after 23 years as the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater here, and for his last production he conceived a going-away blowout. He invited absent friends, threw gravitas to the wind in favor of giddy,...

May 20, 2002, Monday

Evergreen The year was 1881. Gilbert & Sullivan trained their sights on poseurs whose attitude turned out to be mostly platitude. The original targets of ''Patience'' might have been Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement, but this witty operetta...

Even when history repeats itself, it rarely does so to music. And yet it was hard to emerge from Andrei Serban's acclaimed new production of Mussorgsky's ''Khovanshchina'' at the Bastille Opera without remarking almost too obviously on the parallels...

Richard III, at least as portrayed by Shakespeare, was one nasty guy, except to the director Andrei Serban. In an energetic adaptation now on view at the La MaMa Annex, Mr. Serban has turned the blood-drenched king into three nasty guys. Mr....

November 3, 2001, Saturday

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad kingdom, this nutty old land of Denmark that has materialized at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Even Hamlet, for all his perversity, should know better than to describe the place as a prison. What it is, obviously, is a...

WHAT may be the very last new ''Hamlet'' of Shakespeare's millennium opens at the Joseph Papp Public Theater tonight -- boards that many melancholy Danes have trod before. This time, Liev Schreiber wears the customary suits of solemn black, under...

NEWS Public Notice Andrei Serban will direct a new ''Hamlet'' beginning on Nov. 23 as part of the 1999-2000 season of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. The season begins on Oct. 26 with the world premiere of ''In the...